Guns, Germs, and Steel Video

Jared Diamond:

• spent 30yrs studying
• Papua New Gatineau
• Likes studying birds
• "Why you white men have so much cargo and we Mew Guineans have none?"
• Biologist and Professor at UCLA
• Cargo was evidence of white man's power
• white men saw themselves genetically superior
• All great civilizations have had; advanced technology, large populations, and well organized work force

Sago tree:

• lot of food in there
• make into dough
• not nutritious
• eat quickly, cause it goes bad
• only 70lbs of food

Middle Ages:

• Barley and wheat
• Drah:
• think is one of the first permanent villages in the world
• 11 1/2 thousand years ago
• Granary first place to store food
• Domestication: process by which humans pick the best of the crops and keep growing them.